OUR Leader once addressed to her followers the following questions: "But what of ourselves, and our times and obligations? Are we duly aware of our own great opportunities and responsibilities? Are we prepared to meet and improve them, to act up to the acme of divine energy wherewith we are armored?" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 176.) These questions are searching, and they are as urgent now as they were when she asked them.
Obligations and responsibilities result from relationships; hence, we may be aided by first considering them. In absolute being, the relationships are few and simple. Individual man is related to infinite Mind, Soul, Spirit, as an offspring, a manifestation, a reflection thereof. As such, individual man is also related to every other reflection of Spirit. For this relationship, brotherhood is the most descriptive term; but for this use, it must be freed from the faults of human nature. The Principle of actual brotherhood is divine Life, Truth, Love.
In contrast with reality, what is called human being appears to exhibit a complex of diverse relationships. Nevertheless, Christian Science enables one to reduce them to a degree of order and simplicity. It enables one to keep the essential relationships in view, and to distinguish reality from unreality in every situation.
